(CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday ran into several shouting matches with Democratic senators who pressed him on the bungling of the Epstein files, firings of agents for alleged political reasons and warnings that President Donald Trump, eventually, would turn on the director despite his fealty.

Patel, who has come under heavy criticism for his social media posts in the early days of the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s murder, held his poise for most of the oversight hearing before the GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, repeating tried-and-true methods set out by directors before him to avoid specific answers and denying accusations that he’s politicized the agency.

In one outburst, however, Patel called Sen. Adam Schiff “a disgrace to this institution” and a “politica

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